Word: rigeur
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Smile, You're on Candid Camera--Police surveillance seems to have become de rigeur at Harvard protests...
Breaks from convention seem to be de rigeur in this show. The first section is called "The Exploration of Conventions." The different actors read definitions from the dictionary, interviews from American Theater, and excerpts of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. We are also told in the program that we get a deconstructed version of As You Like It, but we are not sure we ever do. Before we think it has started, the first section is over, and the six actors take a dance break...
...Mamita and Aunt Alicia (Betsy Palmer) will gladly help design the set While Honore keeps busy tutoring Gaston in the rules of the game--for status value, little can rival driving a spurned lady to attempt suicide Mamita enlists Aunt Alicia to perform daily finishing lessons seemingly as de rigeur as piano lessons for the varsity social climbers of New York in the 80's, or anytime for that matter...
...leads to seem even devoid of that much acting ability. Much of the success of Firstborn comes from Christopher Collet's masterful performance as Jake, offering even in his sassiest scenes a glimpse into the conflict tearing at him. How disappointing, then, that Firstborn must nonetheless include the de rigeur weightlifting scenc in Jake's bedroom...
...school by working as researchers or secretaries. The height of their career aspirations, if they had any, was to be a researcher for Time. A job at Macy's was considered rather glamorous, too, and also gave one a chance to live in New York, an experience considered de rigeur among certain of my classmates. It all seems a millennium ago, and the Radcliffe of my day was in many ways a quaint and dated institution. But I still look back on those years with nostalgia and a certain amount of pride. We knew a good thing when...